Christopher Buckley
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
During the pandemic, an aging screenwriter is holed up in a coastal South Carolina town with his beloved second wife, Peaches. He's been binge-eating for a year and developed a notable rapport with the local fast-food chain Hippo King. He struggles to work on a ludicrous screenplay about a Nazi attempt to kidnap FDR and, naturally, an article for Etymology Today on English words of Carthaginian origin. He thinks he has Covid. His wife thinks he is...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Starting a rumor about an assassination plot targeting the Dalai Lama as part of an effort to gain support for a secret weapons system, Bird McIntyre and Angel Templeton provoke Washington crises that bring the United States and China to the brink of war.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Author Christopher Buckley imagines a not-so-distant future when America teeters on the brink of economic disaster as the baby boomers start retiring; Cassandra, Buckley's heroine, is a twenty-nine-year-old PR chick who blogs at night about the impending Boomsday budget crisis.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Nick Naylor is a sexy, smart and charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who will fight to protect American's right to smoke. At the same time he is trying to maintain the idea of a perfect role model for his 12-year-old son. When Nick incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.
Author
Language
English
Description
When the networks called the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden on Saturday, November 7, 2020, people from coast to coast exhaled-and danced in the streets. This quick-turnaround volume, a collection of 36 personal essays from a variety of voices all over the country, captures the week Trump was voted out, a unique juncture in American life, and helps point toward a way forward to a nation less divided.
An eclectic lineup of contributors-from...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An evening of readings and discussion: Heller's friends and colleagues including Christopher Buckley, Robert Gottlieb, and Mike Nichols. They revisit his classic black comedy set at the end of World War II, one of the most important books about patriotism, honor, and the absurdities of war and beauracracy of the 20th century. The conversation is led by Lesley Stahl. An excerpt is performed by Scott Shepherd (Gatz).